Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun sg] so [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there . |
| 2 | At the top of the steps , she stopped , and put down the basket so that she could knock . |
| 3 | Balor was going to let down the drawbridge so that they could ride across it . |
| 4 | Bit of that that we do in year ten eleven can that be transferred down the line so that there 's a similar type of thing |
| 5 | Number three , do you encourage energy efficiency in your home and in the work place ? er becoming aware energy efficiency at home turning down the heat so that we do n't live in a it 's hardly appropriate today is it ? — er we do n't live in hothouses : spins off from their place of work , and if they 're being energy efficient at work , they 're being energy efficient with our money . |
| 6 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 7 | Waterways , a watering system designed for them , consists of a perforated funnel inserted when making up the basket so that its mouth is just above the compost level . |
| 8 | They actually set up villages , which are in erm you know usually in rural er surroundings , and erm er they have erm usually I mean they 're mentally-disabled people there , and erm er they set up the village so that there are able- bodied people in there , and yet they live with the er mentally disabled people , you know they have houses and they the erm in inverted commas normal people have erm children and all this sort of thing , erm and yet they have erm er some of these mentally defective people living with them in the house , |
| 9 | And because I had only one chair , we used to sit on the edge of the hard , narrow bed and draw up the table so that we could write on it together . |
| 10 | The man lifts up the woman so that she can wrap her legs round him . |
| 11 | Although they make a go of the cinema for a while , by showing desert pictures and pushing up the heat so that they can sell cool refreshments , their only aim is to get back to middle-class life , but with enough money to avoid any more ‘ petty , stupid problems . ’ |
| 12 | it 's also the animal so that you 're actually left with three er words that sound the same , two of which are spelt differently and the third which is the name of an animal , okay . |
| 13 | She was nervous as she handed out the story , but she told it vividly , her body unconsciously acting out the story so that he could almost see and hear Rose and Dagmar . |
| 14 | The refrigerator was easy , you just opened the door and put food in it until it looked like an igloo inside , and then a pair of hands which might or might not be your own came along and cleared out the ice so that you could use it again . |